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Sagar Ganesh R.
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Product Reviewed: AWS Databases
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What do you like best about AWS Databases?

It has all types of enhancements, integration, metric calculations and lot more features such as lambda, s3, putty, memory instances, putty features which helps us to thoroughly enjoy the aws features and queries the aws table as fast as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

There is nothing we can dislike about aws. It's the best. And the support team here is amazing. Whenever we face a glitch they are help to us 24/7. What else is there to complain. Negative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

The transformation of data with millions of records are very fast and whenever we are dealing with big data, performance is a factor where we need to bother, but using aws services, there is nothing to worry about. Everything is smooth here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Igor Z.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

1. Ability to scale up and scale down seamlessly

2. The fact that it's managed and we don't need to maintain the infrusctucure. We only concentrate on business logic and database schema

3. It supports both SQL Server and Posgres technologies that we use

4. It's very easy to implement and pilot different solutions that we need

5. the fact we can use it on-demand making it OPEX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It's not cheap, but we maintain it as a cost of running smooth business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have several different type of databases in our products - SQL Server, Postgres different versions. We use RDS to simplify the management, improve scalability, availability and reliability. Also things like security and audit are being managed by AWS which provides us better outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prakash G.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Signing up with Amazon RDS is relatively easy and there are so many features that are offered. The backup is automated while the architecture can be scaled and replication is managed automating the complexity of the database out of the user’s way. It is a set package solution with those necessary features that increase dependence and productivity for organizations. It has very fast implementation and has good support to customers. Using frequently. It is relatively easy to integrate with other . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Amazon RDS is a friendly user but its underlying infrastructure is not accessible in advanced configuration. But at the same time, the extensive feature set is a positive, but ties in with a negative — cost, especially for large workloads. RDS is a great answer for the large majority of your needs, however, it may be limited in its flexibility should you need to create something more complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon RDS provides something analogous to how we maintain databases and prepare them for scale by automating backups, patching, and replication. Thus, we enable ourselves to concentrate on data analysis and application development rather than infrastructure management and reap benefits in terms of improved productivity and reduced operational overhead with which we are very much dependent on for the business growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prakash G.
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Data Migration Specialist, Data Engineering Manager
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Amazon Redshift
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift has an easy to use and setup gives teams of all sizes access to data warehousing and analytics. It’s got robust feature and it integrates well with other AWS services to make it easy to implement and scale. Their customer support is reliable and their use frequency adds a value by using their analytics which give us important insights about our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

While powerful, Amazon Redshift can be expensive to process on a large scale with increasing amount of data. Complex joins can slow down query performance, and tuning is an expertise. In high demand environments there is limited support for unstructured data and frequent optimization can be difficult, especially for daily operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Redshift helps satisfy our demand for fast data warehousing by giving us blazing fast query performance in large datasets to run daily reporting and analytics. While complex data queries can occasionally be performance challenging, it provides our center data, which in turn helps us to gain better insights, and better decisions which in turn helps in our business operation and strategy planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Reviewed: AWS Cloud
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The first thing I like about AWS cloud is it's user friendly user interface and the documentation it offers for its users.

Being the largest cloud provider, it offers vast number of features that one can implement in their software development workflows.

The learning opportunities and contents that AWS offers is very much useful to cloud learners who begin with AWS as their first cloud platform.

Easy integration with multiple other platforms makes it easier for developers to work with in their software development process and day-to-day activities utilising AWS cloud.

Implementing a new workflow in AWS is much easier and simpler compared to the competitors.

The customer support AWS offers is really fantastic, including the basic support that it offers even with free of cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Given that AWS cloud has plenty of features, the cost of those features really comes at higher price compared to the other cloud providers such as Azure and GCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS solves the need for a data center for hosting and deploying our applications.

As a startup, it was much easier for us to implement new resources in AWS and reduced the time required to launch our product in the market.

It offers multiple services which are readily available in AWS with much less configuration changes needed.

It helps us save costs and focus on building the business instead of managing the data center and its servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snehasish K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a game-changer, allowing us to have highly scalable and performance-enabled data warehousing for the complex project. The MPP architecture and columnar storage offer powerful query performance on the platform. Redshift also allowed us easily to integrate several AWS services, such as using S3 for data imports and Glue for ETL operations, and made our pipeline very streamlined so that data transfer and queries were decreased by many times.

With Spectrum, Redshift can handle structured as well as semi-structured data, which will allow efficient cross-database queries and productivity boost with regards to data analytics and reporting. Advanced data compression features and data distribution ensure that storage is optimally utilized while efficiently making use of and managing costs on resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Though performance and scalability of Redshift are excellent, the system is not very easy to use for optimization and query tuning for new users. Automated tools for better configuration will enable it to reach a diverse set of teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Redshift solved the problem of big data processing and execution of complex queries by offering a strong and reliable infrastructure that accelerates data processing by up to 35%. Its scalable power has helped absorb increasing volumes of data, and rich analytics support has been helpful in helping you experiment quickly and bring actionable insigh Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Philip j.
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Product Reviewed: AWS Cloud
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The best about AWS service is that::

1)AWS provides very vast services related to storage , servers, firewalls, networking , security .

2)AWS has good scalability, cost effective , it has good flexibilty .

its has different regions and has good availabity zones which helps with latency issues.

3)AWS provides good security for cloud it has Identity Access Management system , where datas can be protected and different users can be provided with different access and policies.

4)AWS has good security compliance.

5)AWS provided good intergartion when in comes in terms of migration and while deployment of different application using AWS services its lot easier.

6)AWS provides good documentation on its services .

7)AWS cloud provided proper updates on its services and if any new services are included proper webinars are conducted and the process and serices are explained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Only the thing i dislike about AWS is naming of its services its not easier to find a service related to a particular search and naming its terms .

like example suppose S3 any new fresher wont be able to identify it as a storage service and the related term bucket it should have something named related to storage.

like other services like lightsail we wont know it is severless if you are a fresher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS helps in meeting our business like we are a company where we provide cloud solutions and we use AWS Cloud for our work and when any clients us with any application deployment , migration and some liking to move into cloud we provide them with AWS estimates , proper documentation with proper solutions and we intake the client and which is beneficial for us . its was all beacuse of AWS cloud which helps us with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jai C.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Whenever I need to manage large datasets, Amazon Redshift is my go-to tool. Its ability to handle complex queries and large volumes of data makes it essential for my work. The speed and efficiency with which it processes data are particularly impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

For someone new to AWS or cloud-based data warehousing, getting started with Redshift can be a bit tricky. The initial learning curve was steep for me, especially when it came to understanding the migration process. But with time, I found it to be an invaluable platform for analyzing complex data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Redshift has been a crucial tool for managing financial data and forecasting demand. I appreciate how it simplifies data sharing within my team and integrates smoothly with tools like Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau. This integration has allowed me to create detailed reports and dashboards that are easy to use and share, streamlining our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alkaif s.
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Product Reviewed: AWS Cloud
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

I like best about AWS Cloud is its scalability and flexibility and also AWS allows businesses to scale their infrastructure up or down based on demand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

number of features, ease of use, ease of implementation, customer support, ease of integration, frequency of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Cloud solves a variety of problems and provides numerous benefits that can greatly enhance efficiency eg: Scalability and Flexibility, Infrastructure Management,Cost Efficiency AWS Cloud is helping businesses solve challenges related to Scalability and Flexibility, Infrastructure Management,Cost Efficiency and the ability to focus more on core business activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is truly a very flexible, powerful, scalable and full of features as AWS claims. I have using the service, including many others, in my organization since I joined, and it has served many production use -cases quite efficiently.

The best thing about Amazon RDS is it's combination of simplicity and power. Be the intuitive design on the console or the powerful CLI commands which were able to automate everything that I liked and wanted, this database is a great option for anyone looking either to migrate their on-premises databases, or choose a cloud database.

The ability AWS provides regarding scaling to up or down sizes on -demans is very good, which not only helps to meet the live customer API calls, but also helps us to manage and reduce our cost.

Even though we utilised the RDS for MySQL, MS SQL and PostGre SQL, the integration with other databases like MariaDB and more is quite appreciative, that enables us to work on projects for some customers using unconventional databases too.

I also loved the ease of connecting it to an EC2 instances whole creating the database itself, and how AWS manages many things automatically. Also, the option of managing the database credentials using Systems Manager for safety and security purpose, and ensuring nothing goes leaked is a very amazing feature as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

I don't feel something too strong to dislike about Amazon RDS, but there are certain things where improvements can surely happen. One of them and what I feel, most important, is the proper integration of RDS databases to other identity providers like Microsoft Entra, Okta etc. If the credentials can totally be removed using this seamless integration, then it will truly complete even further use cases, and Excel on the security side better.

Also, Amazon RDS can fasten the application of patches/updates on our database as soon as they are released, so that we are always ahead in the update race as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

First and foremost, Amazon RDS helped to cut off a major burden of physical server costs and overhead of using them, and in utilizing a managed database which can automatically do provisioning, patching, backups, deletion and more. It helped out firm to really focus on the database and the scripts, rather than unnecessary stuffs.

Secondly, we have our database used by global users, from USA, Korea, Australia, Europe and so. We are able to provide them a low -latency experience by deploying our database near to their location, thanks to Amazon RDS. For the safety and security of data, features like backups, point in time recovery, encryption at rest and in transit and network isolation are something which we love to have. These have greatly increased our confidence to use this service, and include it to build a reliable solution for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav C.
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Product Reviewed: Amazon Aurora
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What do you like best about Amazon Aurora?

Aurora provides us with much better performance speed than a normal traditional database. It also provides continuous automated backups in s3 without halting the live functionality of the application in the real world.

As Aurora is a managed service it becomes very easy to deploy within a few minutes.

Aurora also provides seamless integration with many AWS services for AI/ML like bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Aurora?

One of the main issues we run into in Aurora is that you need to keep your database in constant auto-scaling but temporary storage is local to a computing instance and depends on its class. So if your ALTER statement requires lots of temporary space to rebuild table/index, it may fail because of insufficient local storage.

One of the other disadvantages is that we can't use the SUPER mysql command, as that is blocked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Aurora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our old traditional database scales poorly against high volumes of data and heavy loads of transactions.

So, amazon auora help us in solving these two problem by providing low latency read replica and autoscaling to handle our heavy traffic based on the scenario.

It also provide cross region disaster recovery option so we can provide our customers with seamless experience in term of any mishappening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.